Thread: BP trashed unfairly by Yanks?

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by meepho

In India the impact coke a cola has left the water table near empty impacting on the farmers and livelihoods of the nearby inhabitants.

Shit you are right thats right up there with the gulf diaster. Where in India by the way?

come on man i.m just giving you examples.

By the way the coke plant was devastatig to a whole region with thousands of people losing thier incomes and having to relocate.
Communities across India are under assault from Coca-Cola practices in the country. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in India.

• Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table.
• When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption.
• In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government.
• IRC- Coca-Cola -- Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable

I will endevour to find out more info if you do so desire.
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Ok, what was worse, BP or CDO?

The toxicity of one spells doom to the local fauna and flora but was an accident which will be reparable with no lasting damage of any consequence but the other?

A deliberate deception invented by criminals which near as dammit destroyed the banking world and we will all limp along for years to come as a consequence.

Americans are really quite ghastly and if we had any true grit we should bale out of that stupid Afghan war and leave it to them to fight. After all, it was only a reaction to 11/9 and therefore of no value save as a means of assuaging dented national pride.